The century-old brand is now a boutique maker of road-legal track weapons, with a familiar engine doing the work.

I would like to ask about the other Tatra cars known for ingenuity, namely the Tatra T-77 and T-603. These, too, were ahead of their time. Any info on these Tatra cars is much appreciated. Al K ...

The Tatra 603 was the first real post-World War II passenger car design from the very old Czech carmaker, and continues the evolution of Tatra's rear-engine, air-cooled engineering lineage that ...

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Czechoslovakia's Comecon limited Tatra to build just 300 luxury cars per year -- and, in a heated debate with East Germany, the Tatra 603 narrowly beat out the Sachsenring P240 of the famed VEB ...

In its 18 years of sales, a total of 20,422 T-603s were built. Founded in 1923 and nationalized by the Czech in 1945, Tatra continued to produce cars through 1999.

Most people say that car design peaked somewhere in the 60's or 70's, but it would be nothing without inspiration from the 30's and 40's. This week's episode of Petrolicious features the Tatra T87 ...

In its 18 years of sales, a total of 20,422 T-603s were built. Founded in 1923 and nationalized by the Czech in 1945, Tatra continued to produce cars through 1999.

In 1954, however, Tatra re-joined the car building with a large passenger car, and this is where that V-8 engine you mention came into play. The V-8 T603-engine had previously been developed and ...